Face vomiting is disgust with nowhere left to hide, green liquid gushing from a wide-open mouth, worse than a queasy stomach. It covers actual sickness too, not just metaphor, for whenever something (or someone) makes you physically ill.
What 🤮 means
Furrowed eyebrows and squished-shut eyes turn this into a whole-body reaction, not just a mouth thing. It's also honest enough to work for real physical illness — actual nausea, not only something disgusting you witnessed.
The 🤮 Face Vomiting emoji signifies a sense of throwing up due to the exposure to extremely disturbing, cringy, and sickening scenarios or conversations. This emoji is mostly used to show this feeling of being disgusted rather than to explicitly say that you're sick.
How and when to use it
- If you just read or watched something incredibly disgusting, send this emoji as your reaction.
- If your friends are texting about something gross that happened, use this emoji as a way of telling them that their conversation made your insides turn.
- Use this emoji while narrating something super cringe that happened.
- You can also use this emoji to just tell that you've been throwing up all night.
Other Names
- 🤮 Disgusted Face
- 🤮 Cringe
- 🤮 Grossed Out
- 🤮 Puking Face
- 🤮 Throwing Up
- 🤮 Ill
- 🤮 Spew
- 🤮 Vomit
- 🤮 Vomiting Face
🤮 in real conversations
What does 🤮 mean in texting?
Maximum disgust — something so gross it's making the sender sick, literally or figuratively. It shows up for repulsive content and shady behavior alike: 'he said WHAT to her 🤮.'
What does 🤮 mean from a guy?
Usually reacting to something cringeworthy or morally gross rather than actual sickness — a bad breakup story, an ick-inducing overshare, secondhand embarrassment cranked to the max.
Is 🤮 ever about a person, not just gross content?
Yes, often — it's a common way to say someone's behavior is repulsive, not just that a video or smell is bad. 'That guy 🤮' is a character judgment, not a stomach complaint.
The lowdown
- Category
- Smileys & Emotion › face-unwell
- Codepoints
U+1F92E- Emoji version
- Emoji 5.0
- Shortcodes
:vomiting_face:GitHub:face_vomiting:Slack · Discord:face_with_open_mouth_vomiting:Slack- Keywords
- barf, ew, face, gross, puke, sick, spew, throw, up, vomit, vomiting
How it looks across platforms
Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens. Curious why the designs above don't match to begin with? Here's why that happens too.
⚡ Quick round
Which joined the keyboard first — 🤮 Face Vomiting or 👲 Person with Skullcap?